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Thursday 25th of March Philips, Mediaguild and High Tech Campus Eindhoven awarded EFFECT Photonics for their business plan.

The Amsterdam Antwerp Challenge is a local business plan competition for international talent modeled on the business plan competitions of M.I.T. and Cambridge University. Main goals of the competition concern bringing together technical and business talent, currently fragmented across the Amsterdam-Antwerp corridor, and to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in this region.

About EFFECT Photonics
The demand for communication bandwidth is higher than ever and becomes increasingly complex. Management and energy consumption are becoming bottlenecks for future growth. Effect Photonics, a spin off from the internationally renowned Cobra Research Institute, develops high end Photonic Integrated Circuits (PiC’s). These PiC’s solve the management and energy issues related to the growth in communication bandwidth. The first product that will enter the market is a patented tunable laser that is 100 times faster than currently available, far less complex and with more flexibility. First samples are shipped to interested customers in the first quarter of 2011. Volume production is expected in 2012.

The largest target for this product is the domestic fiber market. An estimated 300.000 devices per year will be needed in 2015 to answer the demand for bandwidth. As the high specifications for this market are developed, sub markets can be targeted with intermediate devices. Founded by Boudewijn Docter (PhD Cobra), Effect Photonics is now actively scouting for expansion of the team with an experienced CEO in the electronics or telecom business. Roughly € 1.3m of investment capital is needed to start up this company which could be paid back approximately within four to five years.

EFFECT Photonics won € 5000,- and coaching to start-up their business.
Philips, Mediaguild and High Tech Campus Eindhoven will organise the second AA-Challenge in the autumn of 2010.

More information: www.aachallenge.nl

Are you planning to join this year’s Picnic event and got a great idea? We want you to pitch @ PICNIC.
Pitch@Picnic is your one stop shop if you are starting out with a new venture. Whether you are looking for feedback on your business, want to partake in the Amsterdam Antwerp Challenge Business competition, or when you looking for funding or exposure: show us what you’ve got!

Give your PICNIC a kickstart, and stop by on the Thursday or Friday morning in the PICNIC club / ‘Gashouder’ (8:30-10:00). No ticket for PICNIC? NoProb! PICNIC gave us the opportunity to hand over 10 festival tickets each day to the best ideas. Give us an impression of your plan and send it over to info@mediaguild.com. Winners will receive notice on Wednesday. (more…)

7scenes has been honored with the Official Honoree nomination by Webby Awards. Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted to the 13th edition, fewer than 15% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. This honor signifies an outstanding caliber of work.

Perhaps the next big Internet frontier, the Mobile Web has outgrown its infancy to become the next truly exciting avenue for content, services and commerce. The inaugural Webby Mobile Winners, Nominees, and Honorees have shown the foresight and ingenuity to excel within a quickly changing and increasingly fragmented Mobile Web universe.

As a result of the superior quantity and quality of sites entered, the 13th Annual Webby Awards recognized sites and teams that demonstrated a standard of excellence. 7scenes has the honor to be one of them in the category Mobile Web, experimental and innovation.

As a part of a Picnic Challenge more specifically the , Postmachina have committed themselves to a weeklong daily videolog, or a viral campaign if you will.

If you are a fan of the Matrix, the all new Batman series, or Starwars for that matter , I am pretty sure you like these; in fact you can gain your own minutes of fame by following the instructions in the video.

E-video one

For the other video’s please click below (more…)

After last year’s highly successful Creative Tour event, part of the annual Picnic new media conference, the legacy continues with another installment being prepped for September 25. Syntens, platform for entrepreneurship, the Amsterdam branch of the Chamber of Commerce and new media business incubator MediaGuild all have their stake in the invite-only event, that combines a networking boat tour from the Picnic ‘08 festival area to a project market and fancy drink in the lobby of the fully renovated Amsterdam Branch of the Chamber of Commerce.

A select yet diversified group of national and international representatives including company owners, venture capitalists, politicians and journalists among others, will be invited for the occasion, which seeks to provide a snapshot of some of the leading creative business initiatives in the Amsterdam area today. To provide a balanced overview, projects from the perspectives of the three initiators have been cherrypicked, representing various fields of expertise and diversified stages of development.

After ample of time for a proper introduction, both invitees and participating companies are invited aboard for the return trip, providing everyone with an extended and uninterrupted networking opportunity.

Details Picnic Creative Boat Tour
Thursday September 25
18:00 departure Picnic terrain
18:30 Arrival at Kamer van Koophandel hq , event opening
19:15 Project market opens
20:45 Announcement of departure
21:00 departure at Kamer van Koophandel hq
21:30 Arrival at Picnic festival area

Click below for an overview of the participants (companies)
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